Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight (Feb 2009)

Subject: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 10:05 PM

Paul Harvey has died in Phoenix. He joins his Angel with the angels, and will comment on news here in Heaven,
RIP

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 10:14 PM

Grew up listening to him. Rest in peace.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 10:19 PM

and perhaps now HE will get "The rest of the story". He was one of a kind.

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 10:26 PM

Yup. Grew up with him, Helen Trent, and the rest of the bunch.

He went on record as being opposed to the war in 'Nam. Said if we weren't going to win it we should leave.

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 11:00 PM

What a distinctive voice and delivery! When I sold radio advertising, his show was our most popular slot and the most expensive. He was truly unique.

From HERE:

His death comes nine months after that of his wife, Lynne Cooper Harvey, whom he often called "Angel" on air, and who was also his business partner and the first producer ever inducted in the the Radio Hall of Fame.

"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said. "So, in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents. And, today millions have lost a friend."

From his humble beginnings as a teenager helping out cleaning up at a local radio station, Harvey went on to have his broadcasts carried by 1,350 commercial radio stations, as well as 400 stations of the Armed Forces Radio Service, and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: GUEST,Slag
Date: 28 Feb 09 - 11:11 PM

God bless. God blessed us with Paul Harvey. News and opinion that was interesting and a style all his own. I especially loved his Christmas story about the man who did not attend the Christmas Eve church service with his wife because he just didn't believe all that business about Christianity. A terrible snow squall whips up and he notices a little flock of birds huddled on the ground midway between the house and the barn. He knows if they sit there too long they will freeze to death so he opens the barn door wide for them as it is safe and relatively warmer but the birds just sit there. He turns on the lights in the barn because he thinks the birds don't see the door but still they just sit there. He then tries luring them with seed; no luck. He tries to flush them into the barn but they just fly a short distance then huddle back together. He thinks to himself, "if only there were some way I could communicate with them to show them where safety is.   If only I could become a bird too, then I could show them how to enter the barn" and it is then he hears the church bells chiming in the village, just a short distance away!

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Genie
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 12:03 AM

I didn't always agree with his political stances but I would always stay tuned when I happened on one of his broadcasts - especially "the rest of the story" - and they never failed to entertain or amuse me and/or enrich my education.

You had a nice long stint here entertaining us, Paul. You'll be missed.

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 01:53 AM

I rarely agreed with his political views and usually felt like a captive audience if I was in a vehicle or office and someone else was listening to him. His "rest of the story" routine was iconic, but the rest, I didn't care for. I think it was his tone of self-importance that was so off-putting for me.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 11:18 AM

I'm close to Stilly's take on him. The last few years I just couldn't listen to him. But I do think he was true to his own vision and he certainly lasted -and out lasted everyone else- so RIP, Paul Harvey.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 12:40 PM

Same here, Ebbie, in his later years. In fact, I haven't actually heard him in years and years.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 01:44 PM

Harvey set the stage for Limbaugh and his ilk. I'm not so sure he should be remembered quite so fondly.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 02:12 PM

He was a one of a kind as Bill said but those "rest of the story" things were pretty shaky..........

After his genitals were severed in a tragic Tiddly-Wink accident, doctors skillfully replaced them with two Hush-Puppies and a Cocktail Weenie. He went on to successfully father 4 corn dogs. And now you know the rest of the story.

And Greg makes a good point.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 02:39 PM

While aware of it, I wasn't going to try to make the Harvey/Limbaugh connection because I don't listen to AM radio enough, though anyone who is old enough who grew up with AM radio will recognize it immediately. (Something along the lines of Arthur Godfrey -> Art Linkletter -> Paul Harvey -> Rush Limbaugh.) I agree with Ebby, he was true to his own vision, it's the blinders he was wearing that made it so easy to follow that straight and narrow.

SRS

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Greg F.
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 02:59 PM

The blinders, and the hubris.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: Ron Davies
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 05:14 PM

Page 2.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: M.Ted
Date: 01 Mar 09 - 10:56 PM

Rather than share my views of Mr. Harvey, I will pass on this inquiry into the veracity of his work: The Right of the Story For those who need a precis of the article--Urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand is quoted a lot...

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 01:01 AM

Thanks, M.Ted.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight (Feb 2009)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 06:09 AM

I loved to listen to Paul Harvey - I got turned off by his right-wing agenda in more recent years, and I hated myself for continuing to enjoy him. But hey, his programs were always interesting, whether you agreed with him or not. He was a good storyteller, if nothing else.

I always trusted the products he advertised. Turned out some of the products weren't all that great, but you couldn't help but believe in Paul Harvey.
May he rest in peace, even if True Value charges twice as much as Home Depot.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight (Feb 2009)
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 06:36 AM

See? Ted proves my "story" is right on! Mine could have been a PH Classic...........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight (Feb 2009)
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 08:43 AM

Yeah, Spaw, but Harvey's lies, inventions and fantasies can't hold a candle to those of Limbaugh, Coulter, Rove & the rest.

Of course, those used to swallowing Harvey's gnats on a regular basis never gag on Limbaugh's et.al.'s camels- the bullshit quotient of which - and the damage done - approaches that of Good Ol' Joe McCarthy.

What's old is new again- and I don't see an Ed Murrow anywhere on the horizon - to the country's eternal shame.

Subject: RE: Obit: Paul Harvey, Gooood Niiiight (Feb 2009)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Mar 09 - 12:21 PM

Daniel Schorr is still reporting, at age 90, but he has slowed quite a bit, to weekend programs only. (National Public Radio these days)